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Rangitīkei (New Zealand electorate)

Rangitīkei (before 2008 spelled Rangitikei without a macron) is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Rangitīkei is Suze Redmayne of the National Party.[1] She has held this position since 2023.

The electorate has existed continuously since the 1861 general election.

Profile

Rangitīkei is the third largest general electorate by area in the North Island. It encircles, but does not include, Palmerston North. The electorate straddles State Highway 1 through Bulls, Marton, Taihape, and Waiouru as far as Mount Ruapehu Its largest centre is Feilding. Its western boundary, from south of Whanganui, extends northwards to include the communities of Ohakune, National Park, and Taumarunui. At the 2014 boundary review, the population of the RangitĪkei electorate was below tolerance and projected to decline further, so the Representation Commission shifted population around Shannon from Ōtaki into RangitĪkei.[2]

Between Census 2006 and Census 2013 the RangitĪkei electorate experienced a 0.4% decline in population in comparison to a 5.3% increase in New Zealand as a whole. One in ten (10.0%) stated their highest qualification as a Level 2 certificate, the fourth-largest share among general electorates. One in ten (10.4%) also listed their occupation as a community and personal service worker, the fifth-largest percentage. Six industries accounted for close to two-thirds (61.3%) of those working in 2013: agriculture, forestry, and fishing (16.8%); manufacturing (9.3%); education and training (9.0%); public administration (8.9%); health care and social assistance (8.9%); and retail trade (8.4%).[2]

History

A seat named Wanganui and Rangitikei was contested at the very first general election in New Zealand in 1853. The use of an electorate named Rangitikei in its own right dates from the third session of the New Zealand Parliament. In a somewhat auspicious start for the seat, the first Member of Parliament for the seat in 1861 was future Prime Minister William Fox. Fox resigned twice; first on 16 May 1865, causing the 1865 by-election (won by Robert Pharazyn), and then on 11 March 1875, causing the 1875 by-election (won by John Ballance).[3]

Three members died while holding the seat: Douglas Hastings Macarthur died on 24 May 1892 and was succeeded by John Stevens; Arthur Remington died on 17 August 1909 and was succeeded by Robert Smith; and Sir Roy Jack died on 24 December 1977 and was succeeded by Bruce Beetham.

The current boundaries of the seat date from the introduction of mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting in 1996. The seat was created by adding the southern tip of King Country to the northern tip of the Manawatu seat, and drafting in the towns to the east of Whanganui from Waitotara. The rural conservative nature of the seat makes it a safe National seat, though for six years in the 1970s and 80s it was held by a third party MP, Social Credit leader Bruce Beetham.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Independent  Conservative  Liberal  Reform  Labour  National  Social Credit

List MPs

Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Rangitīkei electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.

Key  Labour  ACT

Election results

2023 election

2020 election

2017 election

2014 election

2011 election

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 41,343[10]

2008 election


2005 election

1999 election

Refer to Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate#Rangitikei for a list of candidates.

1996 election

1993 election

1990 election

1987 election

1984 election

1981 election

1978 election

1978 by-election

1975 election

1972 election

1969 election

1966 election

1963 election

1960 election

1957 election

1954 election

1951 election

1949 election

1946 election

1931 election

1928 election

1909 by-election


1899 election

1892 by-election

1890 election

1880 by-election

1876 election

1875 by-election

Table footnotes

  1. ^ White resigned from Parliament on 24 November 1998.
  2. ^ 2017 Mana Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with the Internet Party in the 2014 election
  3. ^ 2017 Internet Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with Mana Party in the 2014 election
  4. ^ 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

Notes

  1. ^ "Member for Rangitīkei, National Party". www.parliament.nz. New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Rangitīkei electorate profile". Parliamentary Library. June 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2017. This article incorporates text by the Parliamentary Library available under the CC BY 3.0 license.
  3. ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 107.
  4. ^ "Rangitīkei - Official Result". electionresults. Electoral Commission. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Rangitīkei – Official Result". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  6. ^ "E9 Statistics – Rangitīkei – Official Results". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Party Votes and Turnout by Electorate". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  8. ^ "Official Count Results -- Rangitīkei (2014)". Electoral Commission. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  9. ^ 2011 election results
  10. ^ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
  11. ^ 2008 election results
  12. ^ election result Rangitikei 2005
  13. ^ "Electorate Candidate and Party Votes Recorded at Each Polling Place – Rangitikei, 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  14. ^ "Part III – Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  15. ^ "Part III – Party Lists of unsuccessful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  16. ^ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1993. pp. 93–4.
  17. ^ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1990. pp. 97–8.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g Norton 1988, p. 330.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g h i Norton 1988, p. 329.
  20. ^ The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 4. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  21. ^ Skinner, W. A. G. (1929). The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. p. 4. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  22. ^ "The Rangitikei By-election". The Wanganui Herald. Vol. 44, no. 12882. 24 September 1909. p. 5. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  23. ^ "Final Returns". Taranaki Herald. Vol. 55, no. 14012. 17 September 1909. p. 3. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  24. ^ "The Electoral District of Rangitikei". Wanganui Herald. Vol. XXXIV, no. 12873. 13 September 1909. p. 1. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  25. ^ "The General Election, 1899". Wellington: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 19 June 1900. p. 2. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  26. ^ "Rangitikei Election". Feilding Star. Vol. XXI, no. 141. 14 December 1899. p. 3. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  27. ^ "The Rangitikei election". Otago Witness. No. 2003. 14 July 1892. p. 15. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  28. ^ "The General Election, 1890". National Library. 1891. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  29. ^ "Rangitikei Election". Taranaki Herald. Vol. 28, no. 3425. 10 May 1880. p. 2. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  30. ^ "The Rangitikei Election". Vol. VIII, no. 2672. Wanganui Herald. 6 January 1876. p. 2. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  31. ^ McIvor 1989, p. 53.

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